5/24/2023 0 Comments The cairo trilogyIn it we follow 17-year-old Kamal as he deals with crises of faith and unrequited love in 1920’s Egypt. Palace of Desire is the second novel of Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. As Egypt struggles towards independence, so to do the younger members of the al-Jawad family struggle for greater personal freedom against oppression from tradition and religion. Considered to be his masterpiece, the trilogy follows the lives of members of the conservative al-Jawad family from the First World War to the Second. Palace Walk is the first novel of Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. To see my reviews for each of these novels, see the links below: The Cairo Trilogy – Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street – is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz the only person to have won the Prize for literature for work primarily in Arabic.
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